us. peter baker and former justice department spokesman now an msnbc justice and security analyst matt miller. matt, you just tweeted your first take on the president's tweet this morning about michael cohen's payoffs, writing quote, i don't think his lawyers will want him offering this public defense of the daniels-mcdougal payment. he'll talk himself right out of the defense that he didn't know it was a crime and that's kind of a smocking gun in itself is it not? >> a little bit. look the one thing the president had going for him, obviously we saw the prosecutors in the southern district of new york friday claim that he directed michael cohen to commit a crime. i think the best legal defense he would have had to that allegation is that there's a very high bar for campaign finance crimes. you have to know it's a crime. a higher bar than exists for
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